Whitman v. Muskegon Log Lifting & Operating Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Montcalm; Davis, J. Bill by Edgar O. Whitman against the Muskegon Log Lifting & Operating Company to restrain the removal of logs from the bed of a navigable stream. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAlvay, J.
Complainant, a riparian owner along • the Muskegon river, a stream used for many years for the navigation, floating, and driving of saw logs, and other forest products, filed his bill of complaint against defendant company seeking to restrain it from digging up and removing from the bed of said stream all saw logs and other forest products, and from taking away from the premises of complainant all such logs and products already taken from the bed of said stream and piled upon said premises by defendant, claiming to be the owner of all such property by reason of his riparian proprietorship,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Log-Owners' Booming Co. v. HubbellMichigan Supreme Court · 1903
- St. Paul Boom Co. v. KempWisconsin Supreme Court · 1905
- Weiler v. ColemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
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